"This book presents emerging research on virtual character artificial intelligence systems and procedures and the integration of cognitive architectures by emphasizing innovative methodologies for intelligent virtual character integration and design"--Provided by publisher.

Despite the importance of emotion in decision making (e.g., ohm and Clore 2002; Luce 1998; Pham 1998; Ruth 2001), research has yet to fully understand how consumers’ use emotional information to make effective decisions. A growing body of research continues to focus on the emotions present in consumption...

By storing Personality Traits in User Profiles we enable Recommender Systems to deduce more interesting recommendations for users acting pro-actively in order to offer them products/services as a consequence of a prediction of their future needs and behavior. This paper is proposed to improve...